American poet Louise Glück, author of nine books of poetry that delve into issues such as disappointment, rejection, death, love and betrayal, was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020, “for his unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, according to the decision of the Swedish Academy announced today from Stockholm.

Born in New York 1943, Glück is the author of more than ten books of poetry, among which stand out “Vita Nova”, “Seven Ages” Y “Averno”, plus a collection of essays, “Proofs and Theories”, who won the PEN / Martha Albrand Award. His first published work was “Firstborn”

“We look at the world only once, in the childhood. the rest is memory”, the poet writes, of 77 years, in one of his most beautiful texts, which bears the title of “Nostos”, an expression of Greek origin that can be translated as “homecoming”.

As stated in its ruling by the Swedish Academy, she is not only a poet concerned with "mistakes and the changing conditions of life, it is also a radical change and rebirth ".

In “Vita Nova”, which was translated into Spanish by the Pretextos label, the same one that in Argentina allowed us to know another of his books (“meadows”), Luck escribe: “I have become an old woman. / I have welcomed the dark / that I feared so much”.

The poet was also honored with the National Critics Award for “The Triumph of Achilles”, the Pulitzer Prize for “The Wild Iris”, and the first Prize awarded by the readers of the New Yorker, in addition to the Bollingen Award, by “Vita Nova”. Glück is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a professor at Williams College. Live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

With four winners in the scientific fields and now the literary, this year's harvest could break the record for women (five in 2009) winners, since the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow and the one for Economics on Monday.